Opening Prayer: O Lord, you have taught us that in returning
and rest we shall be saved, in quietness and confidence we shall be
strengthened: By your Spirit lift us to Your presence, where we may be still
and know that You are God. ~from The Prayer of Quiet Confidence
Scripture: Isaiah 30:15
Journal: How do the words of Isaiah speak to your life or
heart today? Will you embrace them or
resist them? What would it look like to
embrace these words of Scripture today?
Reflection:
Years ago a good friend of mine—seeing the busyness
and chaos of my life—asked me if I was a human doing or a human being. “Because I have a suspicion,” he said, “that
you were created to be a human being.”
And of course he was right. Why
is it so easy to lose our way in this world, and begin to think that our value
and our worth are determined by what we do, rather than by who we are—or rather
whose we are? It is such an easy trap to
fall into, which is probably why God felt it necessary to remind us—in these
verses in Isaiah—that our salvation and our worth is not dependent on what we
do, or on how well we do it. It is not dependent
on how well we perform, what we achieve, or who thinks we’re wonderful. It is dependent solely on God’s great love
and mercy. Once we remember that truth,
and really believe it, then, and only then, do we have a real possibility of
moving from human doing to human being.
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Lord Jesus, please turn me from a human
doing back into a human being.
For then I will be what you intended for me to be. Amen.
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